Turkey is Canada's ally. Turks are headchoppers too just like the rest of their Sunni Muslim brothers

Warning:  Graphic vid and pic:

Yup ... Turks and Turkey will be part of the EU if the powers-that-be have their way.  And, when have they not had their way?

The Syrian copter that strayed into Turkish airspace was brought down by Turkish gunfire and was immediately set upon by the glorious citizens of Turkey and the pilot were beheaded.  That's the poor man's head in the pic below.  Some sources say there were two pilots and both were beheaded.  Some say that one pilot was already dead.  Some say both were alive and were brought out of the crashed helicopter and then beheaded. I haven't watched the vid and won't ... so don't know if  one or two pilots were beheaded while dead or alive.

Canada is allied with Turkey.  We like to hug and make kissy kissy with headchoppers.  Wonder when our esteemed Foreign Affairs minister John Baird has planned a trip to visit  our wonderful ally. Maybe our esteemed PM Stephen Harper will also accompany the FM. Hope they manage to come back home with heads still attached to their shoulders.



More here.

From Reuters:
Turkey said its warplanes shot down   a Syrian helicopter on Monday after it crossed into Turkish airspace and the government warned it had taken all necessary measures to defend itself against any further such violations.

Turkey scrambled two F-16 jets along the border between its southern Hatay province and Syria after warning the Mi-17 helicopter it was approaching Turkish airspace shortly before 2:30 p.m. (1130 GMT), the military said in a statement.

+18: The pilot of the #Syria-n Copter that #Turkey downed, he used to parachute & fell in the hands of #FSA. #Latakia pic.twitter.com/wVU1aWsdlB
— Dylan (@ProSyriana) September 16, 2013

Syria called the reaction "hasty" and accused Turkey of trying to escalate tensions along the border........
........ Syria's army acknowledged the helicopter had strayed into Turkish airspace for a short time while monitoring "terrorists" moving across the border into Syria, but said it was an accident and that the aircraft was on its way back when it was shot down.

In a statement carried by state news agency SANA, it accused Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government of trying to increase tensions between the two countries...........
.........The Turkish lira, which had earlier strengthened to below 2 to the dollar for the first time in almost three weeks partly on hopes for diplomacy over Syria, briefly weakened back above 2 on the news.

Following Syria's downing of a Turkish jet in 2012, Erdogan said the military's rules of engagement had changed and that any Syrian element approaching the border would be deemed a threat and be treated as a military target.

Turkey has bolstered its defenses and deployed additional troops on its border with Syria in recent weeks, with convoys of military vehicles ferrying equipment and personnel and additional short-range air defenses set up...........